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...were definitely in retreat. In contrast to the bitter stalemate fighting elsewhere on the western front, the British-Canadian forces made good time. Nevertheless the Germans retreated in good order. They needed time to get set between the Maas. the Waal and the Led. They had to hold the Arnhem hinge...
...Guns. From the sore spot at Arnhem-the most dangerous point for break out into the north German plain-the enemy pulled out more tanks and men, hurled them against Hodges' lines in a new assault. The Americans had seen the reserves and the armor piling up, were braced for the onslaught. When it came this week, the battle became one of the fiercest yet fought in the west...
Major General Robert Eliot ("Roy") Urquhart, 42-year-old, Scottish-born, red-bereted commander of the gallant British Red Devils, who fought through nine days of hell at Arnhem, was knighted as a Commander of the Bath...
...those nine days they had fought for the bridge in the streets and houses of Arnhem-and the Germans had bashed down the houses, one by one. There had been daylong, nightlong battles for a patch of open field, where the British had pitted their parachuted Piats* and even lighter weapons against the Germans' tanks -and had made the tanks turn tail...
...Arnhem. Meanwhile General Dempsey's rescue force itself was in a ticklish spot. It had pierced a narrow slit into enemy territory. Behind it the Germans rushed in to cut it off. By furious tank attacks, the Germans at one point seized the road that was Dempsey's supply lifeline. After anxious hours they were thrown back, only to try again at another point. One mile from the slim corridor of advance, airborne Americans smashed a German concentration. A call for help brought rocket-firing aircraft into play against the tanks, and the second thrust was beaten back...